Admit it: you think you’re a pretty good driver. You might even harbour aspirations to one day be a racing driver yourself.
Well, one bidder will come a step closer to making his or her dreams a reality at next month’s Silverstone Auctions sale.
Going under the hammer is this Ford Lotus Cortina, which Sir John Whitmore drove to the 1965 European Touring Car Championship, so someone really will be sitting in the seat of a champion.
Pretty cool, eh? Undoubtedly. But, according to the auction house’s estimate, you’ll need around £190-220,000 if you want to call this racer your own.
Whitmore and his Cortina heading to victory at the Snetterton 500km, during his winning 1965 European Touring Car Championship campaign
For British touring-car fans, an Alan Mann Racing-prepared car like this is something pretty special, and this car’s associations with the sport’s greats keep on coming.
That Whitmore swept to the ’65 European Touring Car Championship in it in such emphatic style – winning eight of the nine rounds – is impressive on its own.
